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Uffizi Galleries' Botticelli masterpieces—currently kept in storage—are bound for Medici villa in the Tuscan hills
The Uffizi Diffusi project aims to "scatter" works from the Florence museum's collection around overlooked sites across Tuscany on short term loans
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Gerhard Richter to loan Holocaust works—that he vowed never to sell—to new Berlin museum
Loan of over 100 works to future museum of Modern art encompasses Richter’s Birkenau series, the fruit of a decades-long quest for an artistic response to the Holocaust
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Exhibitions during Covid-19: museums turn to 'virtual couriers' to protect unchaperoned art
To overcome travel restrictions, registrars are using Zoom and other technologies to monitor works on loan remotely
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Brisbane lands mammoth European loan exhibition from the Met
Gallery of Modern Art is sole venue for a show resulting partly from a skylight renovation project at the New York museum
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Coalition calls for removal of director of Detroit Institute of Arts
Anonymous current and former staff members describe “hostile and chaotic work culture” under Salvador Salort-Pons
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Now stuck in Japanese lockdown, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers will not return to UK until next summer
Londoners will have to wait even longer to see the National Gallery’s 60 touring masterpieces
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China’s Giacometti and Picasso museum delayed by coronavirus
Launch of Beijing venue combining works by both artists is postponed—and some loans in doubt
NewsPrivate collections
Berlin museums announce ‘painful’ end to loan of 'one of the world’s most outstanding contemporary art collections'
Prestigious private Flick collection, including works by Giacometti, Duchamp and Bruce Nauman, has been on loan to Berlin for 17 years
NewsExhibitions
Museums wrangle to extend exhibition loans beyond lockdown
Delicate negotiations with lenders are under way to postpone major European shows of Raphael, Artemisia Gentileschi and Christo
NewsCoronavirus resources
US Congress renews payroll loan programme for small businesses and non-profits reeling from coronavirus, extending hopes for museums
Money ran out in the first round, although some museums scored loans
NewsNational Portrait Gallery
Not bigger, but better: behind the scenes of the £35.5m revamp at London's National Portrait Gallery
Director Nicholas Cullinan and architect Jamie Fobert reveal how the gallery’s controversial three-year closure will transform its 600-year collection of portraits
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Brighton Pavilion gets its glitter back as fanciful treasures return on long-term loan from the Queen
More of the startling objects collected by George IV will return from Buckingham Palace in early 2020
NewsMusee du Quai Branly–Jacques Chirac
Quai Branly to send fragment of feather belt worn by first King of Tahiti back to Polynesia
Rediscovered maro 'ura will go on show at Museum of Tahiti and the Islands on long-term loan from 2021
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Titian’s six epic mythological paintings to be reunited as Wallace Collection announces first ever loans
National Gallery in London will display the series next year and lend a Rubens work in return
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British Museum to borrow the Nebra Sky Disc, the oldest portrayal of the cosmos
The artefact will be the focus of a joint exhibition with the Halle Museum of Prehistory
NewsExhibitions
Despite Brexit, Britain is biggest lender to Louvre’s Leonardo blockbuster show
Speculation remains over whether Salvator Mundi will appear
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Where there’s a will there’s a way: the Wallace Collection lifts loan restrictions
Terms of original bequest are loosened, paving the way for the London museum to stage joint international exhibitions in Los Angeles and Vienna
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Lack of space at the British Museum sees major loan of Assyrian collection to Getty
Since the closure of a basement gallery in 2006 there is little room to store the whole collection
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Greece in talks with Louvre to borrow Parthenon frieze as part of 'temporary exchange'
Move reignites debate over British Museum’s position on sculptures brought to Britain by Lord Elgin
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Louvre curators condemn “collections for rent” schemes ahead of plans to open a branch of the Paris museum in Abu Dhabi
Deal “is about petrodollars and military relations”, says senior member of museum staff
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum considers long term loans of its paintings
Trustees’ chairman would like to rationalise the collection
ArchiveNew Museum
New cultural centre opens at Tlatelolco Square, Mexico City
And third Mexican collector loans his art to university
ArchiveCollectors
Top German collector disappoints museums by selling loans
Hans Grothe has sold 700 works to Wella hair-care billionaires for E50 million
NewsNational Gallery
'Exceptional loan' of Francesco Melzi painting from Russia comes to London's National Gallery
Unusual month-long display of recently restored work by Leonardo’s favourite and heir will be lent by the State Hermitage Museum
NewsLoans
Hermitage and MoMA heads seek end to US-Russian loans freeze
Diplomats hint at future cooperation between the countries at Texas conference
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Amsterdam Sunflowers will never again travel
Conservators are concerned over Van Gogh’s still life, which went to over 80 exhibitions after the war
NewsBanksy
Shredded Banksy work to go on long-term loan to Stuttgart museum
Love Is in the Bin will be shown among works by Rembrandt, Holbein, Marcel Duchamp and Picasso
NewsBritish Museum
Looted ‘cannibal’ bowl will not travel to Quai Branly in Paris for Oceania exhibition
Royal Academy says conservation issues—not restitution fears—mean the ceremonial feast trough can not be loaned
AnalysisMarket
In debt we trust: the rise of art-secured lending
The rapid growth in the number of loan providers, from private banks to specialist lenders, could transform the art market’s relationship with the financial markets
NewsArt market
London dealer Matthew Green accused of selling art used to secure more than £2m in loans
His business Mayfair Fine Art went into administration earlier this year following FBI sting operation
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
When the National Gallery used a London taxi to move a Van Gogh painting
Back during Tate’s 1947 exhibition, loan arrangements were more casual
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Uffizi launches Leonardo da Vinci 500th celebrations across Italy
New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester
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Found guilty in 1995 of embezzling investors’ money, Roberto Polo resurfaces in role of art benefactor in Spain
Toledo government hopes for “El Greco” effect from this 15-year loan of late 19th- and 20th-century works
NewsBayeux Tapestry
Entente cordiale: governments sign deal securing loan of Bayeux Tapestry to the UK in 2022
Cross-channel collaboration involves translating, conserving and digitalising the historic embroidery
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British Museum rekindles relationship with Zayed National Museum after loan deal ended last year
Under new partnership, the London museum will lend key objects to the new institution in Abu Dhabi
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British Museum show focuses on Assyrian antiquities targeted by Islamic State
Loans likely to come from Iran—but works from the Met would not meet London museum's strict borrowing guidelines
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Kunsthalle Mannheim unveils €68m extension backed by German billionaire
Foundation of Hans-Werner Hector, one of the country's richest people, contributed €50m to the revamp
NewsLoans
How Britain tried—and failed—to borrow the Bayeux Tapestry twice before
One attempt was made in 1953 to mark the coronation of Elizabeth II and another for the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066
BlogIn the frame
The Guggenheim's Nancy Spector told Trump to flush off
NewsExhibitions
British Museum sends treasures to Mumbai for grand exhibition of Indian history
Encyclopaedic show was inspired by former director Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects
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British Museum ends loan deal with Abu Dhabi
Construction delays to the Zayed National Museum are behind the move
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Looted Benin bronzes to be lent back to Nigeria
Pledge by European museums to set up “permanent display” of rotating loans in Benin City could pave way for restitution
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MoMA expansion is boon for Paris and Melbourne
Major loans from New York will be shown in both cities while the US institution adds one-third more exhibition space in Manhattan
NewsArt market
Anatole Shagalov embroiled in legal cases that reveal problems of buying art with loans
Buyers using works as collateral and allegedly defaulting on payment becoming increasingly common in "frothy market"
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Time’s up for Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum’s loan agreement with Carmen Cervera
More than 400 works from the baroness’s collection may be removed from the Madrid museum, but the Spanish culture minister hopes to reach a deal this week
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Will Les Demoiselles d’Avignon return to Paris?
Vuitton museum to show Modern masterpieces from MoMA
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Britain’s ‘art lending library’ finds four new homes
Arts Council Collection of nearly 8,000 works is planning 24 exhibitions with regional partner galleries
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Five years on and the Clyfford Still Museum is still making discoveries
Curators have yet to examine more than 300 of late artist’s paintings
NewsExhibitions
Marie Antoinette’s personal china among Versailles treasures to travel to Australia
The largest ever loan show organised outside France will feature more than 100 objects from the historic royal palace
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Loan to Los Angeles renews Getty’s Italian connection
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How Prince Charles did his royal best to bring Henry VIII portrait to London
The late Baron Heini Thyssen’s eye-popping valuation of Holbein painting stopped National Gallery loan, trustees’ minutes reveal
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Rembrandt’s Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet to go on view in Wales
The anonymous foreign buyer of the painting has lent it to the National Museum Cardiff for three years
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Secret flight path of the Parthenon statue
Hermitage director reveals "circuitous" route that marble sculpture took from London to St Petersburg to avoid Greek seizure
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Prado responds to Bosch downgrades by cancelling Dutch loans
Madrid museum still allows The Haywain to be centrepiece of blockbuster show in artist’s home town
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Germany could pay $3m to borrow Tehran’s Modern art
Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
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Tehran’s Modern art could travel to the US
Hirshhorn holds preliminary talks but Berlin first in queue to borrow works by artists such as Gauguin, Pollock, Rothko, Picasso and Bacon
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Art is a weapon as Russia and US fight cultural war
Relations worse than ever after federal US judge imposes $43.7m fine over Jewish Orthodox library
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Hermitage to lend avant-garde collection
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Prague’s Titian loan show delayed after insurers refuse to ship works
Concerns about the venue’s roof and paperwork delays have postponed the exhibition—insured for €160m—for six weeks
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Goya’s Duchess of Alba to make rare trip to London’s National Gallery
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Miuccia Prada plays key role in Italy-Iran cultural diplomacy
Ancient sculpture from Italian museums to go on show in Tehran after Iran lends Greek statue to Fondazione Prada
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Nuclear deal paves way for cultural diplomacy with Iran
Overtures include Louvre director’s planned visit to Tehran, while Italy lends classical sculpture
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British Museum could send loans worth £1bn to the Gulf
Finest Assyrian relief from Nimrud among objects being valued for possible display in Abu Dhabi museum
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British Museum’s ivory icons denied US entry for loan show
The US Fish and Wildlife Service blocked the importation of the Byzantine objects before they ever left the UK
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British Museum to send star objects to the Gulf
Assyrian reliefs among the 500 loans earmarked for long stay in Abu Dhabi
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Super Bowl victory for sporting Clark Art Institute
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US refusal to protect Cuban art threatens Bronx Museum show
Ambitious joint venture between New York and Havana at risk as State Department remains unwilling to grant immunity from seizure for Cuban loans
ArchiveUffizi galleries
Uffizi draws the line at Leonardo loan request for Milan Expo show
Milan’s mayor fails to drag Italian minister of culture into row
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
New contemporary design museum planned for Shenzhen
V&A lends China a hand
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V&A is willing to lend its fragment to reunite it with the Sidamara Sarcophagus in Istanbul
Turkish tomb could regain long-lost head
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
V&A shows are Shenzhen-bound
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum will send the best of British design
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
Louvre Abu Dhabi to open with a Leonardo?
The artist's La Belle Ferronnière is the subject of loan discussions
ArchiveVideo, film & new media
Collector Ingvild Goetz strikes a deal with Bavaria over video installation collection
A gift of 375 film works, with conditions
ArchiveTate
Tate borrows £55m for building projects
Renovations and expansions at both London Tates have been costly, and loans were required to bridge gaps in cashflow
ArchiveExhibitions
V&A strengthens ties with Qatar by showing pearls exhibition from Doha, despite ethical concerns
Museum closes a cultural gulf
ArchiveRestitution
Turkey says return objects or forget loans
Roman and Ottoman-era exhibitions will suffer as US and European museums face tougher calls for restitution
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
Uffizi-Tokyo Da Vinci deal
The Uffizi in Florence and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum will share Leonardo’s Tavola Doria
ArchiveJoan Miro
Miró on loan damaged at Tate Modern
The museum forked out £203,000 for repair and depreciation costs
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Rubells team up with Beijing’s Ullens Center
Collaborative show will open in December 2013
ArchiveCollectors
The co-founder of Yahoo is showing part of his Chinese calligraphy collection in San Francisco
Interview with collector Jerry Yang
ArchiveExhibitions
Hollywood costumes come to V&A
“Wizard of Oz” and “Gone with the Wind” costumes among those on show
ArchiveKunstmuseum Basel
Goetz's Arte Povera collection visits Basel
An exhibition at the Kunstmuseum will document a movement that shook off the rules of the establishment
ArchiveCollectors
Alvaro Saieh explains his collecting habits and fascination with Old Masters
Inspired by a talk at Christie’s, the collector has amassed 150 works from the 13th to 16th centuries, as well as Modern and contemporary pieces
ArchiveRestitution
Turkey turns up the heat on foreign museums as list of antiquities demanded gets longer
More exhibitions are hit by the loans boycott as Turkey pushes for restitution
ArchiveRestitution
Turkey blocks loans to US and UK in a restitution dispute
Multiple claims for antiquities at New York’s Met, major exhibitions hit at London’s British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum
ArchiveRubell Collection
Rubells loan works to Fundación Banco Santander
"American Exuberance" is on view in Madrid 9 February to 27 May
ArchiveMartin Roth
We have an obligation to share collections abroad says V&A director
The V&A’s new, German-born director Martin Roth on what he learned in Dresden—and Beijing
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
Salvator Mundi in London: Your first chance to see the “new” Leonardo
How the National Gallery negotiated a record eight loans including a long-lost canvas, Saviour of the World
ArchiveFrançois Pinault
Pinault sends his collection across the globe
Modern and contemporary works are on the way to Korea and Brazil
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Mantuan Roundel for the V&A
Qatar agrees to loan
ArchiveCollectors
Interview with collector David Lewis: “It’s fun to watch people enjoy our paintings”
After 40 years of silence, Lewis talks publicly on the eve of his major loan exhibition
ArchiveCollectors
Anonymous art collector revealed
He is property developer David Lewis
ArchiveCollectors
Highlights of David John Lewis's collection to go on show next February in Liverpool
The more than 400 hundred works are described as “one of the largest collections of old masters amassed since the second world war”.
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Actionist collection offered to Courtauld
Long-term loan from British collector would gather controversial works in public
ArchiveJuly 2010
Eli Broad addresses the American Association of Museums: “Get art out of the basement"
The collector lectures museum professionals at their annual conference in Los Angeles
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The Pinacothèque de Paris to form a partnership with the Hermitage and plans to display long-term loans from a group of international collectors
Collectors to create “museum collection”
ArchiveExhibitions
Vatican lends Raphael’s finest tapestries
Papal blessing and private funder for Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sistine show
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The V&A and the RA compete to present a Vatican show timed to coincide with the first state visit to Britain of Pope Benedict XVI
V&A will reunite Raphael’s Sistine tapestries with their cartoons for first time in 500 years
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Iran's denunciation of British Museum in Cyrus Cylinder disagreement could make loan renegotiations impossible
Loan of relic caught up in international political tensions